Next, Cao Zhiqiang talked with Masashi Sada about the specific matters of signing the contract.

In general, there are no problems, but there are two main objections.

The first point is the proportionality.

Cao Zhiqiang was not satisfied with the fifty-five points, and proposed two or eight points at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang himself was eighty percent, and the company was twenty percent.

This is obviously a sky-high asking price, and he didn't agree, and then Sada Masashi took a step back, four or six points, that is, forty percent of the company, and sixty percent of Cao Zhiqiang himself.

After Cao Zhiqiang thought about it, he agreed to this sharing ratio, and in the future, it will be divided into four or six points.

The second point is the signing time.

Masaki Sada's original plan was to sign a five-year contract as soon as he signed the contract, but Cao Zhiqiang felt that it was too long and wanted to sign a contract on January 1.

This is obviously not possible either.

In the end, the two parties went back and forth, and the final contract was to sign a short-term work contract for three months, and then sign a long-term contract after three months, and Masashi Sada could renew the contract first.

Originally, I wanted to do it for at least half a year, but Cao Zhiqiang also said that his current situation is a bit special, and if he signs a long-term contract with Masashi Sada, I'm afraid it will be a lot of trouble.

One of the reasons is Cao Zhiqiang's own work.

He still has a job in China, and he is a leader in a state-owned enterprise, and if he rashly signs a long-term contract with a foreign company without asking for instructions, I am afraid that he will be in great trouble.

The second reason is Cao Zhiqiang's visa problem.

Cao Zhiqiang was able to come to Japan using an official passport and a business visa, and according to the current situation, he could only stay in Japan for 90 days, that is, about three months.

The good thing is that within 90 days, Cao Zhiqiang can travel back and forth between Japan and China many times.

The disadvantage is that once the time limit is up, if you want to re-enter Japan, you will have to apply for a new visa and passport.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang is not sure whether he will be able to come to Japan in three months.

Of course, if Cao Zhiqiang can apply for a work visa in Japan during his stay in Japan, he can theoretically live in Japan for a long time.

As for passports, it's not that hard to do.

According to the current situation, as long as Cao Zhiqiang can apply for a work visa in Japan, he can go directly to the Chinese Embassy in Japan without returning to China and change his ordinary passport.

So the key question is to see if Masashi Sada can help Cao Zhiqiang get a work visa.

Although Masashi Sada, he thinks it's okay, but after all, it's not necessarily possible, and there are many processes to go through, and it's mainly the Japanese side that goes through the process.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to have a reliable work unit and a reliable guarantor on the Japanese side.

Masashi Sata's office, the situation is average, but Masashi Sada himself, because he is a famous artist, is still somewhat guaranteed energy.

So if Masashi Sada's personal guarantee, it's not a big problem, but it's just a big problem, and it's not a percentage success.

Not to mention, Cao Zhiqiang's statement did convince Masashi Sada that this is also the fundamental reason for the three-month contract period.

However, for Cao Zhiqiang, the so-called three months were just for him to fool Masashi Sada.

In other words, the three-month period was used to force Masashi Sada to help him apply for a work visa.

To put it bluntly, Cao Zhiqiang doesn't want to be restricted by a firm, even if he has to sign a contract, he doesn't want to sign a long-term contract.

After all, once Cao Zhiqiang's work is released in Japan, it will definitely become popular, and he doesn't want to be bound by Sada Masashi's company for the time being.

In fact, what Cao Zhiqiang wants to do more is to cooperate with Masashi Sada to open a joint venture office, and Cao Zhiqiang himself is also one of the bosses.

In this way, Cao Zhiqiang only needs to provide works in the future, and the specific operations will be handed over to Sada Masashi to do, and the benefits will be shared by everyone, and the level will still be an equal partnership, so it will be better.

On the contrary, if he really becomes a long-term contracted artist of Masashi Sada, no matter how good the relationship is, it can't change the difference between a boss and a worker.

But the most important thing is that when you are a boss, you can make the most money, get the most profits, and have more say in Japan in the future.

It's just that these things can't be said to Masashi Sada for the time being.

It's better to wait for the visa to be processed, and it's not too late to discuss it with him.

In short, four or six points, three months to sign a contract, once these two conditions are negotiated, the rest is a small problem.

Next, Cao Zhiqiang and Masashi Sada officially signed a work contract.

As soon as the contract was signed, Masashi Satta was impatient to ask his sister to help him run for Cao Zhiqiang's work visa, and at the same time took Cao Zhiqiang to rent a house nearby.

The matter of renting a house was brought up by Cao Zhiqiang, who said that he likes to be clean and like to live alone, so that he can create better.

In addition, it is not suitable for him to live here for a long time, Masashi Sata, first, it is too crowded, and secondly, it will affect each other's lives.

Sada Masashi also agreed with this, so he decided to rent a one-family building for Cao Zhiqiang nearby, specifically for Cao Zhiqiang and the two he brought.

In the early 80s, Japan had not yet reached the peak of the economic bubble, and even in Tokyo, renting was not so tight, so it was not difficult to rent more than one household.

In the end, Masashi Sada rented a house about 300 meters near his home, and built it one by one, and he lived in it with his bag.

This house looks a little older than the house where Masashi Sada lives, but it's okay, plus a total of two floors, 88 square meters, three bedrooms and one living room, anyway, if three people live, it's absolutely fine.

The most important thing is that this house is very close to Masashi Sada's house, just a few steps away, which not only facilitates the communication with each other, but also has a certain distance, and each other will feel very comfortable.

Now that the house is done, the next step is to get the job done.

To put it simply, the day after Masashi Sada rented a house for Cao Zhiqiang, he took Cao Zhiqiang to JVC Records' recording studio in Tokyo in person, officially started recording, and prepared to release the first single record for Cao Zhiqiang.

In fact, JVC Records is just a common name in the industry at present, and the real name is "Victor Otoraku Industry Co., Ltd.", also known as V Society.

It's just that because the current record company is a subsidiary of JVC Company, that is, Shengli Company, it is generally known as JVC Records in the industry.

Later, in 1984, in order to facilitate operation, it was simply integrated and re-established as a "Japan JVC Co., Ltd."

But in any case, it is not an exaggeration to say that this JVC record is the leader of the Japanese record industry at present.

Not to mention anything else, at least in terms of the software and hardware of the studio, JVC Records' recording studio is definitely one of the best in Japan.

Masashi Sada's works are basically released by this JVC Records, and he is very familiar with the heads of the production department and sales department of this club, and now he wants to use the recording studio of JVC Records to make a new song, which is not a matter of words.

Having said that, about Cao Zhiqiang's debut song in Japan, that is, the first single, Masashi Sada, has thought about it, that is, when Cao Zhiqiang met with Akina Nakamori and Kyoko Koizumi, he sang the song "Jun がいるだけで" in the room, that is, "As long as you are there".

In fact, when I heard Cao Zhiqiang sing this song that day, Masashi Sada had the idea of helping Cao Zhiqiang release a single, and thought that this song was very good and had the potential to become a big hit.

Unlike Akina Nakamori and Kyoko Koizumi, Masashi Sada is not only a singer, but also a lyricist and composer, as well as a record producer.

In addition, Masashi Sada was originally a very popular artist, and his "Kanbai Declaration" even topped the weekly list of public trust charts, and it was the first place for ten consecutive weeks, and he was a proper hit singer.

So Masashi Sada's appreciation of a song is not just as simple as whether it feels good or not, he is more often a studio owner and a businessman.

Sada Masashi thinks that Cao Zhiqiang's "As long as you are there", with a beautiful and cheerful melody, catchy lyrics, and Cao Zhiqiang's very unique and penetrating clear voice, as long as it is launched, it will definitely be a hit.

In fact, since listening to this song that day, the melody of this song has been echoing in the mind of Masashi Sada, and I can't forget it.

Therefore, he was so eager to sign a contract with Cao Zhiqiang, even if he knew that signing Cao Zhiqiang would be very troublesome, he did not hesitate to do so.

And Masaki Sada also believes that as long as this song is recorded, go back and show it to the person in charge of JVC Records, and he will definitely agree to sign a contract with Cao Zhiqiang to help release Cao Zhiqiang's single record.

As long as JVC Records is willing to push Cao Zhiqiang, it won't take a month to make Cao Zhiqiang a big singer in Japan.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang becomes a Japanese singer and has a certain reputation, it will naturally be easy to apply for a work visa.

At that time, Cao Zhiqiang will become famous, and he, Masashi Sada, as Cao Zhiqiang's agent, will also rise with the tide, at least there is no need to worry about making money.

In case the song is not successful and does not sell well, that's fine.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang can sign a contract with JVC Records, no matter what contract is signed, it will be a victory.

Because as long as Cao Zhiqiang signs a cooperation agreement with JVC Records, he can take this agreement as a proof of applying for a work visa for Cao Zhiqiang.

JVC Records is a big company, and if you have a cooperation agreement with JVC, it is easy to apply for a work visa.

In addition, Masashi Sada now has an empty office, but he lacks funds such as packaging and publicity in the early stage, so Masashi Sada prefers to cooperate with the mode of advancing capital and sharing cooperation.

That is to say, JVC Records advances funds in advance, and is responsible for the production, publicity and distribution in the early stage, and the copyright of the song is returned to Cao Zhiqiang's economic company, Zuoda Planning, and then divided according to sales.

In this model, there is no need to give money to the agency and the singer in advance, but to wait for the release of the record and distribute it after the money is sold.

The advantage is that the record company can reduce some of the expenses in the early stage, and the disadvantage is that once the fire starts, the singer and the agency will also receive more shares, but on the whole, it is beneficial to the record company.

With Masashi Sada's current status and his long-term relationship with JVC, if he is willing to come forward to vouch, then this advance plus share model may not be difficult to pass.

Of course, the premise is that the mastering of the song must be approved by the person in charge of JVC, specifically, by the head of the planning department of the JVC Tokyo branch.

"Don't worry, Cao Sang." Masashi Sada took the master tape in his hand and said to Cao Zhiqiang with a smile, "Minister Shibasaki of the Planning Department of JVC Records' Tokyo Branch is very familiar with me, this song of yours is so good, it should be fine, I will definitely be able to pass it." ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "That's good." ”

However, it turned out that Masashi Sada's thoughts were a bit too much.

When Masashi Satta took Cao Zhiqiang and the master tape of the guitar playing version of "As Long as You" that Cao Zhiqiang had recorded in the studio, and went to the planning department of JVC Records' Tokyo branch to explain their intentions, it was not the minister who received them, but just a section leader.

The head of the planning department was not too interested in Cao Zhiqiang's song.

Or, if this song was sung by Masashi Sada, then they are still interested, after all, Masashi Sada's current fame is quite high.

But if it's a little-known newcomer, Cao Zhiqiang, and a mainlander who can't stay in Japan for too long, they're not very interested.

After talking, the plan they proposed was to buy out, that is, to buy the copyright of Cao Zhiqiang's song, but they only wanted to buy the tune, not the lyrics.

The price is not high, and he is only willing to give 400,000 yen for the song copyright buyout fee, which is only more than 3,000 RMB.

Due to the great difference in their conditions, the final result is, of course, not negotiable.

"It's okay Cao Sang." After coming out of the planning office of the JVC Tokyo branch, Masashi Sada hurriedly comforted Cao Zhiqiang, "There are many record companies, and they don't have vision, just because other record companies don't have vision.

By the way, otherwise, I'll come back tomorrow, and if Minister Shibasaki is here, I'll be able to go straight to him.

Minister Shibasaki and I know each other well, and if I had come forward, he would have agreed. ”

"Forget it." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head, "Didn't you notice, the other party is not interested in my personal identity, even if you look for their minister, it is useless."

Don't forget, I'm from the mainland, and I have a business visa, so I can only stay here for less than 90 days, and it's not certain whether I can stay here for a long time in the future.

During my stay in Japan, it was too risky to release a record for a mainlander like me, who was in a complicated situation.

After all, Miss Teresa Teng made her debut in Japan before, but because of passport and visa problems, she had to leave for the United States halfway through the fire, which made her and the company behind her suffer a lot of losses.

With Miss Deng's experience, it is understandable that people don't want to take risks for me. ”

"Huh? Wait a minute! Masaki Sada's eyes lit up, "What did you just say?" Miss Teresa Teng? ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Cao Zhiqiang looked at Sada Masashi curiously, "Does she have a problem?" ”

"There it is!" Masashi Sada, clapped his hands and laughed, "We can go to the record company that Miss Teresa Teng once signed with, Japan Polydor Records!"

Since this record company once made a Chinese Miss Teresa Teng popular, if you come again, they will definitely be interested!

That's right, if this company is a company, it will definitely succeed and will definitely help you make a record! ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled noncommittally: "Okay, you have the final say." ”

Indeed, although Cao Zhiqiang signed a contract with Masashi Sada, he was actually not very interested.

Mainly, he wanted to return to China in two days.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang wanted to return to China the next day, but during this period, there were not many direct flights between China and Japan, only two round-trips a week, and the fastest flight back to China had to wait for two days, so he could only wait.

During this period, do some work for Masashi Sada, and you should be distracted.

As for the cooperation with Japanese record companies, of course, it is best to succeed, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't work.

In addition, even if the work visa is not good, as long as he can satisfy the Uncle Lin in China, it is not impossible to use the hard-earned money he earned in China to exchange for some yen and foreign exchange, and then come to Japan in the name of investment and business.

The investment business visa is much easier than the work visa, at least for Japan at the moment.

All in all, he is not in a hurry at all now, and naturally it doesn't matter whether he succeeds or not.